Did Love Data Week Pass You By?

Love Data Week is a week dedicated to celebrating data. It is an international event to help spread awareness and appreciation of all things data related. This event week originated in 2016 as the Love Your Data event started by Heather Coates and over the years it has expanded and changed a bit, until it has become the weeklong international event it is today. Currently this event is hosted by ICPSR, a data archive, with participating institutions joining from around the world.

History of International Love Data Week

The theme this year is “My Kind of Data.” Data is personal. Love Data Week 2024 is about highlighting the various representations of “my data,” such as showcasing the work that goes into making data, recognizing data equity and inclusion factors for the people participating in or affected by data, and documenting the data standards from (inter)disciplinary communities. This year we’re focused on helping new and seasoned data users find data training and other resources that can help them work with their kind of data.

International Love Data Week 2024 – List of Events

The theme last year was “Data: Agent of Change.” Love Data Week 2023 was about inspiring communities to use data to bring about changes that matter. Policy change, environmental change, social change… we can move mountains with the right data guiding our decisions. Last year was focused on helping new and seasoned data users find data training and other resources that can help move the needle on the issues they care about.

Falvey Library, Villanova University has participated in a variety of ways, with a collection of workshops and tabling. Our virtual workshops had attendees from all over the world!

Falvey Forum – Love Data Week 2024 Events

Copy above by social sciences librarian Nicole Daly, coordinator of Love Data Week activities at Falvey Library.